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...ostrich-trimmed tricorn hat, Moore embodies the image of Dickensian London long promoted by the city's tourism chiefs to lure foreign visitors at Yuletide. It is now being deployed on this dank, dark morning to tempt customers across the threshold of Liberty's. It's no easy task. London is anticipating its most Dickensian Christmas for years - and there's not likely to be a Christmas Carol-style feel-good ending. (See pictures of Santas gone wild...
...Earlier this month, Ernst & Young took drugmakers to task for failing to meet changing market dynamics, such as an increasingly cost-averse customers. The industry faces unprecedented challenges related to patent expirations, pricing and regulatory pressures, shifting demographics, and globalization, yet most drug companies - particularly in Europe - have yet to adapt, Ernst & Young said...
...Gleno police station, 30 km southwest of Dili, there are signs of progress. While overworked Australian UNPOL officers complain good-naturedly about having to pay $200 out of their own pocket to buy a cell door, an off-duty PNTL task-force officer brings in a drunken man who has been terrorizing local market traders with a machete. Says an admiring UNPOL district commander, Paul Harvey: "There are PNTL officers here I would rather work with than some officers back home." The long-suffering people of East Timor hope his confidence is well founded...
...over a hundred replies, and skillfully weaved into the film his ex-comrades' stories - and their nightmares. Waltz opens with a pack of snarling dogs racing through Tel Aviv's streets to converge outside an apartment belonging to a friend of Folman's. During the war, this friend's task was to shoot the watchdogs guarding the villages before Israeli troops carried out night raids, and for years after, the dogs haunted his sleep...
...students riffed on transubstantiation, the historical roots of incense and why it's not O.K. to pour Communion wine down the drain ("You're not going to flush Jesus," noted Rhonda VanDyke Colby); other weeks, the conversation runs the gamut from politics to premarital sex. "The first task is deconstructing what people think they know," she says. "A rigorous faith is going to serve them well. A rigid one is going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some...